This looks awfully like the traditional model of shipping from a
warehouse to a local store/cache with it's own delivery service. The
local store/cache carries oft purchased items in its market while less
common orders will be back ordered. May be I'm missing something.
Patent denied!
Robert C
On 1/18/14 11:51 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 1/18/14, 11:07 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
"Applied Complexity" at its best?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/?ncid=tcdaily
I can think of various analogues to this in computer science. One is
profile guided optimization, where instrumentation is added to a code
so that it records where it has been. Then those records are used to
guide refinement of the compilation of the code so that it anticipates
where it is likely to go. For example, prefetching data, or setting
branch probability hints in the code. This is in some sense Amazon
prefetching their deliveries so that they will be in cache (near the
likely buyer) should the buyer actually ask for them. Some advanced
database systems (or just database administrators) do the same thing
for large systems -- looking at who tends to use certain tables, and
making sure those users are near their data.
Marcus
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